Chinatown, Manhattan

Chinatown is a neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City, located between the Lower East Side to the east, Little Italy to the north, the Civic Center to the south, and Tribeca to the west. Chinatown is home to 100,000 people, the largest concentration of Chinese people in the Americas, one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves, and one of twelve New York metropolitan area "Chinatown"s. The neighborhood originated in the 1870s, with 2,000 Chinese people living in the area by 1882, when the United States government banned all further Chinese immigration. After the US lifted immigration quotas in 1965, Chinatown's population dramatically increased as immigrants from Hong Kong and Canton arrived, and Chinatown expanded to take over much of the former Little Italy. The Hong Konger and Cantonese residents of Manhattan's Chinatown discriminated against Fuzhou immigrants, leading to the Fuzhou immigrants settling in Chinatown, Brooklyn during the late 1980s and early 2000s. Several Fuzhounese immigrants stayed in Manhattan, however, and Chinatown became divided into smaller districts such as "Little Fuzhou" and "Little Hong Kong".